That doesn't tell us anything. Who was your hosting service? What were they offering in terms of bandwidth and other resources (If they told you it was 'unlimited' well, there ain't no such thing and you probably ran afoul of their 'unlimited resources until you need to use some' fine print.)

Which version of YaBB were you using? Were there any installation issues? Any evidence that your site was attacked by spammers using your resources (did you remember to add the recommended anti-spam mods that will (hopefully) be part of the next version?

If you only have one solution to a problem you're not trying hard enough!

That doesn't tell us anything. Who was your hosting service? What were they offering in terms of bandwidth and other resources (If they told you it was 'unlimited' well, there ain't no such thing and you probably ran afoul of their 'unlimited resources until you need to use some' fine print.)

Which version of YaBB were you using? Were there any installation issues? Any evidence that your site was attacked by spammers using your resources (did you remember to add the recommended anti-spam mods that will (hopefully) be part of the next version?

I am using 2.5AEInstalled it a year ago. Never had any issues until now. Hosting is with TPP (former Planet Domain) I have used 40% of bandwidth so far, and I dont have any mods cause I don't know how to add them.

It could be a spam bot calling the YaBB.pl script many times in a short amount of time thus triggering automated action by your host. Speak to your web host to find out more. If you feel like moving hosts we can help you out

It could be a spam bot calling the YaBB.pl script many times in a short amount of time thus triggering automated action by your host. Speak to your web host to find out more. If you feel like moving hosts we can help you out

This is probably exactly what's going on. In short, you need to be with a better host. Luckily for you, it seems that you have a good option with WebMe's recommendation here. After all, as his signature states, "We offer YaBB compatible hosting. Ask for a free trial."

Also, I don't remember offhand if this community support forum of YaBB's is hosted by WebMe, but you can see how well it performs here, so you may want to give them a try.Edited:

Thanks Bill. We don't host this forum but we do host several YaBB forums. So links can be supplied upon request.

One thing I can tell you from experience is that popular forums will get hit with spambots a lot. Our own forum is getting hit more and more. We were getting hit by spambots at a rate of about 500 every two hours, but that's recently doubled to about 500 each and every hour. This hasn't adversely affected our forum's performance at all, and the captcha changes we implemented keep the spammers from registering.

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

WebMe wrote Today at 11:24am:It could be a spam bot calling the YaBB.pl script many times in a short amount of time thus triggering automated action by your host. Speak to your web host to find out more. If you feel like moving hosts we can help you out This is probably exactly what's going on. In short, you need to be with a better host.

and if you dont have this on your host then this looks like a bot probeing for anything and you can prob see this in your server logs

and hope you can get this sorted out

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

Note: Like most others, this forum doesn't allow us to freely edit our posts or topics to make corrections as needed, so please remember to look for subsequent posts if you see any mistakes or outdated information. Sorry for the inconvenience.

lol its ok its also in the footer of the page but im just glad that this forum is back up to full speed i ended up not comeing on for weeks when it was on sourceforge the name sourceforge just makes me shudder and i feel disgusted with them

YaBB install help video1. what yabb forum are you running and the url2. describe in as much detail as you can what happens and also post screenshots if you can3. please be patient we live in different time zones and have other commitments but we will help youas bill and ted say (Be excellent to each other)

It could be a spam bot calling the YaBB.pl script many times in a short amount of time thus triggering automated action by your host. Speak to your web host to find out more. If you feel like moving hosts we can help you out

I think I do need to change host. They unsuspended my site so that I could fix it but blocked my ip.